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Speaker 1: Be Around the NFL Podcast. Greg can't wait to rap

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Speaker 1: in Atlanta. I'll come back to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: Around the NFL Podcast. My name is Dan Hansis, and

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Speaker 1: I have joined in a room build with heroes Mark Sessler,

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Speaker 1: Chris Westling and Greg Rosenthal. What is up? Boys? Hey Dan? Greg?

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Speaker 1: You have to be Greg legs rap. We all know

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Speaker 1: that that's something that is well known on the show.

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Speaker 1: Greg likes rap. You have to be excited that joining

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Speaker 1: Maroon five on the halftime stage, the likes of Travis Scott,

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Speaker 1: Big Boy, and now we're hearing speculation of more area

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Speaker 1: rappers involved, like Erica. Did you see in the news?

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Speaker 1: Who is it all? Who else is also rumored? Now

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Speaker 1: you don't know you did not read I got you anyway? Greg?

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Speaker 1: You like rap, So let's vamp a little bit while

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Speaker 1: I find out who else is playing? Well. I think

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Speaker 1: the big question is do you get does that mean

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Speaker 1: Andre three thousand is not there? Because Big Boy is

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Speaker 1: part of what I would argue the greatest rap group

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Speaker 1: he gonna What are they gonna play? Like a verse

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Speaker 1: from Rosa Parks? Are they gonna do like the way

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Speaker 1: you move, you know, I like the way you move,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of a Big Boy solo because because

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Speaker 1: the the jams that will get people going, I feel

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's only coming on for like one minute too.

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Speaker 1: They say, I would say he might get one song,

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Speaker 1: maybe two. You would think feels muddled. Is he allowed

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Speaker 1: to play outcast songs without Andre three thousand? I'm glad

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Speaker 1: we're starting with the important topics tops and that enough

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Speaker 1: vamping for you. I still Little John, ye, Big Boy

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Speaker 1: and Atlanta. I mean Little Little John played like halftime

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Speaker 1: so you know you sound underwhelmed. Yeah, with the Little

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Speaker 1: Obviously No, she turned it down reported that's kind of

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Speaker 1: a that's kind of a hot mess in the fact

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Speaker 1: that Maroon five, I thought the only loan be careful here, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying that would have been like an overt

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Speaker 1: you signed up Maroon five for this. I mean it'll

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Speaker 1: be tough to top the year that the Black Eyed Peas,

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Speaker 1: you know, blew the doors off wherever they were. I

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Speaker 1: still think about that performance in North Texas. All Right,

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Speaker 1: this is the Championship Sunday preview show. UH so much

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Speaker 1: to get to because we have the four best teams

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Speaker 1: in football squaring off on Sunday to one v two battles,

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Speaker 1: uh in, the Rams and Saints and the Patriots and Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: So we're very excited about that. A quick reminder, by

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Speaker 1: the way, as we mentioned um on our Wednesday show, Yes,

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Speaker 1: we will be live from Atlanta. We we can't confirm

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Speaker 1: if we're going to have Andrea three thousand, but we

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Speaker 1: won't deny it either. I mean we might have them,

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Speaker 1: have them as much as the Super Bowl halftime exactly

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Speaker 1: a live show at City City Winery in Atlanta on Thursday,

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Speaker 1: January thirty feet The Around the NFL podcast live during

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl Week West. You're excited? Can't wait? Ticket information?

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Speaker 1: Pin to our Twitter page Around the NFL. I like,

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Speaker 1: like Erica before the show, She's like, oh, should I

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Speaker 1: about this background music? And then nothing? Well you didn't

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Speaker 1: last week in the second half. I just don't think

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Speaker 1: golf has played well for about two months. And to me,

428
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Speaker 1: that's why I'm gonna like I mean, the Chiefs game

429
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Speaker 1: was since then, right they scored, Yeah, but that would

430
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Speaker 1: be the yeah. Since they're bye week, which was after

431
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Speaker 1: that Chief's game, he hasn't been the same. And that's

432
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Speaker 1: where I feel like the Saints have a pretty good advantage.

433
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Speaker 1: I trust Drew Brees more than I trust Jared Goff

434
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Speaker 1: right now, we also one of these. This is a

435
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Speaker 1: coach the trust though, I mean the Shan Bowl, I

436
00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,000
Speaker 1: don't want. I don't They're so easy pick up between

437
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Speaker 1: the two Shans at all. I don't trust either of

438
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Speaker 1: these defenses. By the way, I don't think the Saints

439
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Speaker 1: defense is really that great. I think that both five

440
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,560
Speaker 1: teams are going over thirty. I think they're fine. Um

441
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,240
Speaker 1: like last week with some unforced errors and some quick

442
00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,840
Speaker 1: drives and you know things, things happen, and I think

443
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Speaker 1: they're just I don't think either. I don't think there's

444
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Speaker 1: a top ten defense left in the playoffs, and that's fine.

445
00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 1: I was going through my all pro list and I've

446
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Speaker 1: got Cameron Jordan and Ta Mario Davis on my second team,

447
00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:34,399
Speaker 1: vom Bell on my third team. Some people have Markets

448
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Speaker 1: Latimore on their right now. They have really good players

449
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Speaker 1: on that defense. Eli Apple's helped him a lot, He's

450
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Speaker 1: been good. It's fair. Anybody else have the Saints. I

451
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Speaker 1: have the Saints. I have the Saints winning. Well, you

452
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Speaker 1: don't have him locked, man, I'm gonna lock up the Saints.

453
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Speaker 1: There it is. That's what I'm talking about. That's the

454
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Speaker 1: game play. But I could lock them up to I'm

455
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Speaker 1: not getting backed into this confrontation to begin with. That's

456
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Speaker 1: what happened last year and that's why they're it's like

457
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Speaker 1: a split trophy on it's our desk in mind. Here's

458
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Speaker 1: the thing there or less at this point. You get

459
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Speaker 1: to this point and you're either ahead by enough to

460
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Speaker 1: you but you and then then now you have to

461
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Speaker 1: do you because because you're for not far enough ahead,

462
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Speaker 1: so we could we could tie in the super just

463
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Speaker 1: lock whatever he locks the next two that if you

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Speaker 1: want to beat we all sit around praising Belichick for

465
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Speaker 1: putting his his heel on the neck of the snake,

466
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Speaker 1: or you can do this thing. Wherefore the podcast you

467
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Speaker 1: just sit here and roll into a reverse lock, or

468
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Speaker 1: just with a road team who feel the strongest about

469
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Speaker 1: I haven't decided the games next. I have not to

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Speaker 1: say it's a very long neck or no neck at all.

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Speaker 1: We'll see, all right, there you go, let's uh oh

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Speaker 1: quick halftime. I'll throw it to Mark Seiler. We do

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Speaker 1: have an update now. Last week, um, Greg, you will

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Speaker 1: remember that we had an update from the w t A,

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Speaker 1: which is what does that stand for? Again? Women's Tennis

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Speaker 1: Association bang and uh it was it was odd. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. We have sources all over the place, but

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Speaker 1: someone sent me the diary entry of a yet unranked

479
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Speaker 1: female tennis player, Nina Pencova, aged twenty four, and she

480
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Speaker 1: was going through a lot of drama. She um was

481
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Speaker 1: struggling on the court. She was set to face a

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Speaker 1: Vana Saddles in the Sydney International, while dealing with a

483
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Speaker 1: jaded ex boyfriend, Philip, whose number she blocked because he

484
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Speaker 1: wouldn't leave her alone over text. We have another diary

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Speaker 1: entry or two, just to follow up from a week

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Speaker 1: or so later. Let's go, let's hear it. January two

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Speaker 1: thousand nineteen. Dear Diary, I haven't written for days. Feelings

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Speaker 1: of intense anger flow through me. I lost my match

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Speaker 1: to Ivan Ivana Saddles at the Sydney International, a six

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Speaker 1: to six one nail biter. It might not seem like

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Speaker 1: a close match to you, Diary, but I was up

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Speaker 1: one nothing in the second set. But then during a

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Speaker 1: thirty minute rain delay, I heard Australian broadcaster Rebecca Mattern

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Speaker 1: tell viewers this Nina Pencova, She's just a baseline player,

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Speaker 1: nothing else special to her game. Charlie. Only you can

496
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Speaker 1: know this, diary, but it got into my head. My

497
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Speaker 1: coach Boris urged me to brush it off, but I couldn't.

498
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Speaker 1: I melted down. Saddles has a powerful second serve. I'll

499
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Speaker 1: give her that. I totally hate her. I know I'm

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Speaker 1: the better player, and that's why I refused to shake

501
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Speaker 1: her hand after the match, which made the news. So what,

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Speaker 1: I have no reason to be kind to Avana Saddles.

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Speaker 1: She seems like a giant. Diary January twelve, two th nineteen.

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Speaker 1: Dear Diary, Philip won't give up. I blocked his number

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Speaker 1: days ago, but the hotel concierge brought me a telegram

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Speaker 1: with the words you're mean, Nina. I helped fund you

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Speaker 1: start to finish at the sense he open. But it's

508
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,239
Speaker 1: not about the money. It's about the talks we had

509
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Speaker 1: riding horseback over the Swedish wilds in October. Now you've

510
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Speaker 1: ghosted me. That's what teenagers do, not a real woman.

511
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Speaker 1: Massively hammered on expensive Vodkas at a subterranean bar in

512
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Speaker 1: western Prague. Hotties everywhere, but I'm dead to all the senses.

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Speaker 1: You've broken my heart. January four, two nineteen Dear Diary,

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Speaker 1: So Confused. Got a text today from Ivana Saddles. It

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Speaker 1: reads as follows, why not shake my hand, Nina? We're

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Speaker 1: both just trying to make our way. I have no

517
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Speaker 1: ill feelings for you. I enjoyed the competition. Look, I

518
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Speaker 1: want to talk with you about that kink in your

519
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Speaker 1: backhand which reared its head in the second set. I

520
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Speaker 1: went through the same exact issue. Maybe I can invite

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Speaker 1: you over for steaks and some red wine, talk some shop.

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Speaker 1: I don't hate you, Nina, don't hate me. When I

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Speaker 1: see you on the court, you glow like diamonds. Your friend.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Ivana Saddles, M hmm. That's why it's America's fastest

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Speaker 1: growing sport. All this intrigue, it is women's status. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what metrics are going? I mean I I just made

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Speaker 1: that up. But you know, I think I think that's

528
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Speaker 1: trying to help out. I think that's acceptable on this show. Yeah,

529
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Speaker 1: it's just edged out corn hole. Let's move to the

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Speaker 1: American Football Conference the a f C, and let's dig

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Speaker 1: in the New England Patriots. By the way, I did

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Speaker 1: know you locked against your girls team. That is bold

533
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Speaker 1: move there. Chris Wesley what does that move? Old move?

534
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Speaker 1: What does that matter? Just saying I have no influence

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Speaker 1: on whether the Rams win or not. The pet or

536
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Speaker 1: a St. Louis native move to l a the Rams

537
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Speaker 1: follower here, she cheers them with all her hearts. One

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Speaker 1: of the biggest fans I know of any team. In fact, yes,

539
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Speaker 1: when we were at the Rams playoff loss last year,

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Speaker 1: she had tears in her eyes and uh, Mark and

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Speaker 1: I had a drink with her after the Saturday game

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Speaker 1: after the win, and I've never seen a happier girl.

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Speaker 1: She was extremely she's she's a happy person. If nothing else,

544
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Speaker 1: you know that she's gonna you know, she's gonna rub

545
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Speaker 1: it in your eye when they go down to the

546
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Speaker 1: Superdome and make all my I'm rooting for the Rams unhappy.

547
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Speaker 1: I'm rooting for them, but I got a competition to

548
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Speaker 1: win with Mark. So you get you're out for blood

549
00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,040
Speaker 1: and I like it. I'm not out for blood. If

550
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Speaker 1: you play the game all year, you don't like it

551
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Speaker 1: in the second last week, say oh, because my fiance

552
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Speaker 1: roots for this team, but I'm gonna put it. You're

553
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Speaker 1: playing smart. You should. I mean, if you're gonna be

554
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Speaker 1: in a competition, try to win the competition. They could

555
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Speaker 1: be teammates and both lock up the state. Yeah you should,

556
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Speaker 1: you know, you should just pick up because they're gonna

557
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Speaker 1: drop a bomb on the Saints, But I don't believe

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Speaker 1: that you do. The Patriots travel to Arrowhead to meet

559
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Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. Bold teams very impressive last week

560
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Speaker 1: in the divisional playoffs. The Pats whooped up on the Chargers,

561
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Speaker 1: but we all know it wasn't even that close. The

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Speaker 1: Chiefs uh dismantled the Colts, who are flying high look

563
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Speaker 1: like the hottest team in the league, and then they

564
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: looked like the one in five Colts. Let's face it

565
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Speaker 1: in a loss. So these two teams move on. It's

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Speaker 1: one of the better AFC title games I can remember

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Speaker 1: on paper. Greg, and um, let's start here as a

568
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Speaker 1: Patriots fan. And I know you're always saying house money,

569
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Speaker 1: house money, house money, nothing matters. It's not nothing matters.

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Speaker 1: That's appreciating what you have, because if not, it's like

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Speaker 1: what are we doing here? Okay? That said, is there

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Speaker 1: an a f C championship opponent that scares you as

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Speaker 1: much as this Chief's team in previous years or potential?

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Speaker 1: In the last post, Broncos certainly, Yes, that was a

575
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Speaker 1: very good team that that one. They and even and

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Speaker 1: because the Patriots team was worse, I would say Broncos

577
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Speaker 1: as well. Uh, you know that's the thing about you know,

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Speaker 1: the talk about the dynasty ending and all that with

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Speaker 1: with Brady's age, I get it, But this team fits

580
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Speaker 1: right in with many of Patriots teams throughout this decade

581
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Speaker 1: that probably aren't the best three teams in the league,

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Speaker 1: but are comfortably in the top five or six and

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Speaker 1: make it to this weekend with with some defined weaknesses

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Speaker 1: like that's that's where they fit. This is this is

585
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Speaker 1: as good as it gets. Yeah, the Chiefs. This is

586
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Speaker 1: the greatest age and career statistical disparity between quarterbacks ever

587
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Speaker 1: in a playoff game. It's also the most combined wins

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Speaker 1: by opposing head coaches in a playoff game. Well, that's

589
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 1: like they between these two matchups, it's almost too easy

590
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Speaker 1: to kind of go this is like old versus New.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we can either get Breeze and Brady and

592
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Speaker 1: going against each other in the super Bowl, two of

593
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Speaker 1: the greatest ever who have been around and kind of

594
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Speaker 1: dominating link for a while. Not the Breeze has gotten

595
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Speaker 1: this deep in the playoffs very often, or we can

596
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Speaker 1: have something totally fresh. Is this we talked about in

597
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 1: the Endfsey, it felt like a draw with the head coaches?

598
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Speaker 1: Are these the four best head coaches in football playing

599
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Speaker 1: in this these last two games, I think you'd throw

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Speaker 1: in Doug Peterson and Pete Carroll would be there. But

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Speaker 1: if you had to make a one time problem with

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Speaker 1: this right now, with these four being put up as

603
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Speaker 1: the best for that's pretty cool. You know, there's these

604
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Speaker 1: teams are all going to be super prepared, ready to

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Speaker 1: play this game, and there's talent on both sides of

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Speaker 1: the ball. And I think with the on the Patriots

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Speaker 1: side of it, Mark and I think anybody that's ready

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Speaker 1: for the Patriots to go away and you're you're in

609
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,080
Speaker 1: the club of course as well. Is that was disheartening

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Speaker 1: what happened against the Chargers because they went from a

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Speaker 1: team like you could maybe make a case for, uh,

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Speaker 1: they aren't as strong as past years. Well what they

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Speaker 1: did to the Chargers, UH makes you think they could

614
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Speaker 1: beat anybody in the league at this point. They broke

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Speaker 1: them in ten minutes. I mean the game was over.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Chargers came back and there was the

617
00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: deep shot to Keenan Allen. They tied the game up.

618
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Speaker 1: But when the nick when New England came right out

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Speaker 1: on the second drive and did it again, I thought

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Speaker 1: that Los Angeles was totally broken. And I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: that that happens again. I mean the weather in this.

622
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Speaker 1: You know, the Patriots are not a team. This isn't

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Speaker 1: You're not sending the nineteen eighties Seahawks out of a

624
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: dome into snow here. This is not some team that

625
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 1: is a warm weather team. They practice in snow. They

626
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:39,200
Speaker 1: showed them doing that. This week they relish this. I

627
00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: don't think they're intimidated by the weather at all. But

628
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: there is an interesting stat out there that the Patriots

629
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Speaker 1: with Brady are thirty and six in games at or

630
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Speaker 1: below thirty degrees, which sounds remarkable, but thirty of those

631
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 1: games were either at home or against the Bills or Jets.

632
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: I that to me also, you can just throw all

633
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Speaker 1: that out if you want. I mean, they've got to

634
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Speaker 1: find a way to stop this offense. And I think

635
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Speaker 1: this is the kind of week that Bill Belichick relishes,

636
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Speaker 1: because you have to find a way to do what

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Speaker 1: literally essentially almost no one else has been able to

638
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: do consistently on any level, which is to slow down

639
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,000
Speaker 1: not just one, but all of these weapons. And I

640
00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 1: can't wait to see how he deploys defenders to knock

641
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey off his feet a bit before he runs

642
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,720
Speaker 1: his route, or Tyreek Hill, who has dominated them, and

643
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill has owned the Patriots in these matchups. But

644
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: this is a bit of a different Patriots defense right now.

645
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna lock up the Chiefs because I simply

646
00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: think they're the better team right now. I they This

647
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: scares me a lot because I probably spent more of

648
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: the week just wanting to lock up the Patriots. This

649
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:43,680
Speaker 1: is about as dodgy as a scenario. Both of these

650
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: games freaked me out, so it's like it just roll

651
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: with it. I think the Chiefs have the disadvantage of coaching.

652
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 1: I think Bill Belichick is a slight favorite over Andy Reid,

653
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 1: but I love the home field advantage. I hate the defense,

654
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: and they can't get to Brady. If they can get

655
00:31:57,960 --> 00:32:00,600
Speaker 1: to Brady and they can make that Braun Codes game

656
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: that you mentioned where they lost in Denver was all

657
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: about did they hit Brady like twice two times in

658
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: that game? I'm not convinced this defense can do that

659
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: at all, even with Chris Jones and Justin Houston and

660
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: d Ford. But I have a better shot than they

661
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: did last week with the Chargers, which I thought on

662
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: paper they could too. So who knows, We don't know anything.

663
00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:24,440
Speaker 1: Erase everything I just said. Asis That's how I feel

664
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 1: about it. Every time I feel crazy about both these games.

665
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: I just feel crazy about both of these games. So

666
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: I'm worried about you. Every time I found a Patriots advantage,

667
00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 1: I felt like I found a chief's answer. And Brady

668
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: has a ton of experience and bone chilling cold Mahomes

669
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 1: basically has none. And yet there's a long held NFL

670
00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: axiom that older players don't do well in the cold.

671
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: And if you look at like racing, this isn't even

672
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: that recent anymore. But Eli Manning out playing Brett Farve

673
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:53,480
Speaker 1: after Brett Farve had a much better year that year.

674
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: Um and Brady, I mean, let's be honest, has a

675
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: much weaker arm than Patrick Mahomes at this stage. That's

676
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: a fact during really cold weather weather, right, but if

677
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,640
Speaker 1: if it's so cold that the vertical passing game is

678
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 1: really affected, that ultimately hurts the Chiefs, I think more

679
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: just because their offense is based more around the vertical

680
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: passing game. But we did. We just don't know how

681
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,240
Speaker 1: it's you don't know you would think. I do think

682
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 1: you can say that Patrick Mahomes had one of his

683
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: least accurate games last week in the cold that, especially

684
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: on throws over about fifteen yards, he misfired. I mean,

685
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: it was not one of his stronger games down how

686
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: many like side armed and made great great he played.

687
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: He played more than well enough to win. But they

688
00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: also had five straight possessions, you know, without without a score,

689
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: which is rare to see. And he just missed more

690
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 1: throws that they were open guys that they could have

691
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 1: had even more points and you're just not used to

692
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 1: see that quite as much. So what they did on

693
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 1: defense against a Cults team that a week ago, for

694
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: good reasons and for well researched reasons, we loved. Can

695
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: that Can that happen in aainst New England? That's that

696
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's any carry over, but but

697
00:34:03,760 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: I'm more hopeful than I would have been a week ago.

698
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: I think there's there can be more carryover from the

699
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:10,439
Speaker 1: Chiefs defense than anything from that Patriots game. I don't

700
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 1: take anything from that Patriots game other than Brady's healthier,

701
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: He's moving a little better. Edelman's definitely looking better than

702
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 1: he did early in the season. And I think, you know,

703
00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,080
Speaker 1: they're feeling good about themselves. But that was such a

704
00:34:23,200 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: coaching like, guys were so open in that game, and

705
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: they won that game. You're right, they won the game

706
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:29,880
Speaker 1: in the first time. They won that game. Before they

707
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: snapped the ball. He Brady barely even dropped back in

708
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 1: that game. It was. It was a play calling masterpiece

709
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: with screens, swing passes, shovels, play action, quick slants, motion,

710
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: anything so he would not drop back and get hit.

711
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:42,839
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you can do that two

712
00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 1: weeks in a row. I certainly don't think you can

713
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: do the same thing on the road that you did

714
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: at home. No, I agree, But you did do it

715
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,800
Speaker 1: pretty well against the Chiefs last time. And that's not

716
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 1: a game where you know, he moved pretty well, evading

717
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: pressure a couple of times in that game, but for

718
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,800
Speaker 1: the most part, that was a pretty easy game for

719
00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 1: the Patriots offense. That was the game that kind of

720
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: got everyone thin. You know, I guess. I guess these

721
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: are that because at that point they were three and

722
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: two and didn't look that great. And that was the

723
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: first game where you thought, Okay, on their best day,

724
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: they can look like the Patriots. They were up nine

725
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: and a half in that game. Uh, you brought up

726
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: the weather, so we should mention that a day ago,

727
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 1: as recently as twenty four hours ago, the belief was

728
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 1: that it was gonna be around zero, a true Arctic

729
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: blast scenario. Now there there's been a shift in that,

730
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be in the twenties. And then with

731
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 1: the big difference. Yeah, that's a huge difference. The real feel,

732
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,760
Speaker 1: which is a thing in there. Now. I'm not a meteorologist,

733
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: but that's things I think that's been around us. It's

734
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: kind of what the windshill used to things. Don't put

735
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:42,200
Speaker 1: yourself down. You are a real medi relic. Thanks bro Um.

736
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: It will feel like zero, but it was supposed to

737
00:35:45,239 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: be like historic. Larry King's gotta be a hundred and

738
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: fifty years old at this point, and I hope the

739
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: man lives forever. You never want anybody to die, so

740
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: I'm glad that Larry's still with us. In fact, I

741
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,520
Speaker 1: saw him at a bagel shop near where I live

742
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: about six months ago, just chilling with some other old

743
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: people having some coffee. It's a place called Brooklyn Bagels,

744
00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 1: and Larry was just like, Hey, I'm an old man

745
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,080
Speaker 1: from New York. I'm gonna go to Brooklyn Bagels and

746
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: just hang out and be an old man. What Larry

747
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: had to say was on Twitter or somebody tweeted for Larry, Hey,

748
00:36:15,480 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: let's cancel this game. Let's postpone it. It's too miserable.

749
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: And when if it was gonna be negative five, negative ten,

750
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: maybe old Larry had a case. But in the twenties,

751
00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: this is not This is not gonna be near anything historic.

752
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: It's just gonna be cold as balls. The end of

753
00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: that weather report from me met Danzas. I think it's

754
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: clear that none of us have any tangible football experience,

755
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: and none that would translate on any level to anything

756
00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: above a grade school level. But I do remember, you

757
00:36:43,520 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: know what. I take issue with that because if you

758
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: ever covered high school sports in the Northeast, specifically baseball, uh,

759
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 1: it is miserable sitting and watching teenagers play baseball for

760
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: three hours. I know what it's like to be truly

761
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,200
Speaker 1: cold watching sports. Well, I was just gonna say it

762
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:02,360
Speaker 1: to eat like we've all been out there playing snow football,

763
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 1: right or or like awful wins. And I always thought

764
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: for me and that when you're on offense and you're

765
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: the wide receiver, something that favored you against the little

766
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: defensive back who's frozen five feet away from you and

767
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: you burn around him. I don't know if that has

768
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,240
Speaker 1: any maybe just all maybe cold weather just favors defenses.

769
00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: But I would rather be Tyreek Hill knowing where I'm

770
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 1: going in one degree weather than trying to figure out

771
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: where Tyreek Hill is going. Fair point, I agree, And

772
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: I do think though the running game shouldn't, you know,

773
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 1: that shouldn't be too effective. And that was the one take.

774
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: You know. That's the thing I've been banging the drumall

775
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 1: year for the Patriots is I think they're a good

776
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 1: running team at their best. Jack Mason, David Andrews, Joe

777
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:45,239
Speaker 1: Tuney inside have done a really good job opening up

778
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 1: holes for Sony Michelle. And that was one thing that

779
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: they were really good against the Chiefs the first time.

780
00:37:50,160 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of why they won that game offensively,

781
00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:56,399
Speaker 1: is they had their way with the Chiefs running the ball,

782
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: and as a Pats fan, that's kind of my hope

783
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: in this game is that you're gonna get Sony Michelle,

784
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: You're gonna get James White here and there. Certainly in

785
00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 1: the passing game, going up against their linebackers who aren't

786
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: great Hitchens and Ragling, I think that's a good matchup

787
00:38:11,400 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: and that they just control the game. That that's kind

788
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 1: of who they are as a team, and you're gonna

789
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: get a few nice throws by Brady and then you're

790
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,400
Speaker 1: on to Atlanta. Well, they're not predictable usually, like usually

791
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,160
Speaker 1: we have their game plans figured out. But to me,

792
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: that makes the most sense. Play bullyball, shove the Chiefs

793
00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: defense around, keep the ball out of Mahome's hands, and

794
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,480
Speaker 1: try to win that way. They ran right at Chris

795
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: Jones too, who's a great player, but did you know

796
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 1: and rush the pastor had a force fumble in that game,

797
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: but they kind of ran right at him because he

798
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: gets up up the field. The Beltick is good at

799
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: attacking weaknesses, and to me, it's that secondary has been okay, actually,

800
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: but it's the linebackers and maybe it's up the middle

801
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:49,839
Speaker 1: of running again. They have not been on the road

802
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: New England since they scored ten points against the Steelers

803
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: on December sixteen. They're not a good round team. Football

804
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: Outsiders has them as the thirty first defense on the

805
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,960
Speaker 1: road and the second best defense at home. That's outrageous.

806
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:03,359
Speaker 1: One other part of their offense, which is now it's

807
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: gotten to the point where we don't even really talk

808
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: about it anymore. And I was joking about down in

809
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: the newsroom during that wretched game last week. H but

810
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,800
Speaker 1: Gronk had was getting called out for a great blocking

811
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: all game, and he is. He's always been a great blocker.

812
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:20,239
Speaker 1: But he was targeted once in that game. It's gotten

813
00:39:20,239 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: to the point now where he's just not an active

814
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:25,279
Speaker 1: part of the offense. I'd just be careful on that.

815
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: Here's the thing that well, I'm just from what we

816
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 1: saw not well. I don't think because of the game

817
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 1: planning is the Chargers involved him. Run blocking means that

818
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: you won't see him as a receiver in this Do

819
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 1: you think it's you think it's not at all noteworthy,

820
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: had one target and a player. I think it's absolutely

821
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: not noteworthy. I don't think you can project that and

822
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:43,920
Speaker 1: say he's not going to be a factor in the

823
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: passing game this week. I think it's a different matchup

824
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,040
Speaker 1: and I heard Romo talk about it, say, you know,

825
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: don't count him out next week from having a big

826
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: game well as a total homer. He looked better on

827
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: that one catch just twenty five yards then I've seen

828
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: him looking. While he did draw a pretty important pass

829
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 1: interference in that game. You don't get a target for that, right,

830
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,040
Speaker 1: you don't get a target. I'm just saying, I mean

831
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: that that counted. It seems silly that you don't. And

832
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: then and then if you watched like watching that like

833
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:10,280
Speaker 1: he was open in decent amount, but it's like everyone

834
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: was open Brady had Brady had his choice. It was

835
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:16,279
Speaker 1: interesting enough that I went back and watched like the

836
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,120
Speaker 1: the week six game and now Michael's like, this is

837
00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 1: the matchup of the two best tight ends in the league,

838
00:40:21,320 --> 00:40:23,759
Speaker 1: and no one would say that anymore about Gronk things.

839
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: That was on Sunday. We we talked about that, and

840
00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,879
Speaker 1: I think um Brady played very well in that game.

841
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:32,440
Speaker 1: But that was the point that I was making on

842
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: Sunday that he did. It wasn't even like a challenge

843
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: for Brady was like I I think Gino Smith could

844
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:41,840
Speaker 1: have tore up the Chargers the way the way, the

845
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,399
Speaker 1: way he was protected, the way guys are running all

846
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 1: over the field wide open. I'm just saying Brady executed

847
00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:49,480
Speaker 1: the game plan well, but that was just like a

848
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: that just it was fishing a barrel. He knew where

849
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,400
Speaker 1: the answers. He knew where the answers were. Who do

850
00:40:54,440 --> 00:40:56,880
Speaker 1: you trust more Bob Sutton to get to Brady or

851
00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:00,120
Speaker 1: Belichick and Flores and his entire staff to make if

852
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 1: him comfortable for a second year quarterback. That's why I've

853
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:05,080
Speaker 1: probably about an hour from now, I'm gonna switch to

854
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I what if we phrase it this way,

855
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: who do you trust more d Ford, Justin Houston and

856
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 1: Chris Jones to get to Brady or Trey Flowers in

857
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,799
Speaker 1: a bunch of um jabronies to get to Patrick Homes.

858
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,200
Speaker 1: That's fair. I think that. I mean high Tower and

859
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: Flowers played a nice game last week, but the Chiefs

860
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: have been doing that week after week. They Flores has

861
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 1: done a good job, and he did it against the

862
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: Chiefs the first time they got free rushers on Ma

863
00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:33,439
Speaker 1: Homes there. They've been so creative it's gonna really test

864
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: the Chiefs in terms of their communication. I I trust

865
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 1: the Patriots defense to get more pressure because Brady will

866
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: check check out of it, or just get the get

867
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: rid of the ball quickly. But d Ford is the

868
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: one guy that worries me the most in Kansas City.

869
00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: D for it against Cannon and or Trent Brown is

870
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,000
Speaker 1: a big time mismatch. And justin Houston played really well

871
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: down the stretch they have. They are the only team

872
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:59,919
Speaker 1: with two edge rushers in the top ten and pressure percent.

873
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,360
Speaker 1: It's a problem like when Andy Andy Reid is so

874
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: good at those first fifteen plays and the Patriots are

875
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 1: one of the only teams that kind of shut that down.

876
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,040
Speaker 1: They outscored opponents by almost a hundred points in the

877
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: first quarter, so they are a front running team that

878
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 1: is just used to getting out ahead. That's outrageous to

879
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:18,880
Speaker 1: outscore pointings a hundred points in the first quarter alone,

880
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 1: and then they did it again last week. Did you

881
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 1: catch that happens? I'm done? Did you catch yourself there

882
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:26,760
Speaker 1: calling Andy Reid Andy? For a second? It's like Andy's

883
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: so good at that, you know, he's just well, I

884
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,920
Speaker 1: think I said, and he, uh, guys, something click click

885
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: clicked for me. With these Patriots, they're absolutely right. They're

886
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:45,640
Speaker 1: the underdog here, they're the underdog there. They're not wrong.

887
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,640
Speaker 1: Started off with that quote from Tom Brady, everybody thinks

888
00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: we suck. Julian Edelman the spot on those T shirts.

889
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: He's talking for thirty dollars bet against us, he asks, Fine,

890
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 1: let's not hide behind obvious truth. The Patriots outscored twenty

891
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 1: one six in the second half of last week's game.

892
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:12,919
Speaker 1: Look it up, number two seed yikes. Eleven and five

893
00:43:13,080 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 1: this year their worst record in nine years. Let's not

894
00:43:19,120 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: ignore that there have been four Super Bowl in the

895
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: past four years with the Patriots animal only three. The coach,

896
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: he's like seventy the quarterback thirty touchdowns, yards and a

897
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:38,480
Speaker 1: hundred passer rating this year through seven team games. Gross. Gross,

898
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 1: it's all. It's unbelievable, and you know it's a miracle

899
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 1: the NFL is even letting them play this game. America

900
00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 1: loves an underdog. Let's get behind this one bet against

901
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: us and count me as part of the team. I'm

902
00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:58,439
Speaker 1: looking up to. Patriots. Let's go. No, we go ahead.

903
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 1: The best satire I've seen all year. No, I think

904
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: it's good it's kind of like, um, it's Dan's he's

905
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,560
Speaker 1: taking like a seventy two hour anti depressant pill because

906
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:20,880
Speaker 1: I don't like I would would be worried about that.

907
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: We wouldn't be able to do the show if he

908
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 1: was moping around like he was last week. But now

909
00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: that he locked it up, he'll be like, well, at

910
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: least I locked it up. If they win, there's no

911
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: lose this game. They're the true underdogs and underdogs like

912
00:44:33,719 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 1: they were in two thousand one champions that year and

913
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: once more, let's go Pats. You're convincing me to join you,

914
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: and there's just there's no way they lose this game.

915
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: It's a it's a slam dug. Everything is lined up perfectly.

916
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: With Tom Brady, he said, they all think we suck.

917
00:44:52,360 --> 00:44:55,359
Speaker 1: So the thing with that is they, first of all,

918
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: most of the year has been spent around like why

919
00:44:57,239 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: aren't they the same Patriots? And so that's what they're

920
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,399
Speaker 1: pushing back. But I think it's more that just people

921
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:03,640
Speaker 1: don't like them, not they're right about. It's not so

922
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,359
Speaker 1: much that they don't sack, they're just sick of them.

923
00:45:06,239 --> 00:45:08,800
Speaker 1: Tom Brady said it himself. I saw this poll of like,

924
00:45:08,920 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: what teams fail? What Super Bowl matchup fans want to see?

925
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:18,800
Speaker 1: Most had like chiefs Rams, forty three had chief Saints,

926
00:45:19,239 --> 00:45:22,280
Speaker 1: and then like the rest of the twelve percent included

927
00:45:22,280 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: a Patriots matchup. All of America basically does not want

928
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:33,560
Speaker 1: the want against US, US against US. No one believes

929
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: that any of that because we've talked We've talked to

930
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,880
Speaker 1: you all week, and I've never heard you as confident

931
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,800
Speaker 1: in the Patriots losing. Um, Well, that's before he realized

932
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: they were one of them more convincing underdogs in history.

933
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:52,160
Speaker 1: What atory for this team that nobody believes in them?

934
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 1: And basically the whole dynasty, like, you can forget about it,

935
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: it doesn't even matter. I've already bought three of those

936
00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 1: Julian Edelman thirty dollar T shirt that goes straight to

937
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:02,840
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's going to give all the money to charity.

938
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:05,279
Speaker 1: He hasn't made any mention of where the money goes yet,

939
00:46:05,480 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: but the shirts that he's talking bet against us, I'm

940
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:10,400
Speaker 1: sure that will go to a good cause and not

941
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: just to line his pockets with it probably will fund

942
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: his next like pro vacation with Danny Amendola. Hey, Ricky,

943
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: you gotta lock me. You want to join me, he

944
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:24,279
Speaker 1: needs next join us. I am no. I can't even

945
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 1: look at this game. I can't even open my eyes.

946
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: I'm really really enjoyed against them, excited. I'm excited the

947
00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 1: week than once, and I believe that we will do

948
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:38,200
Speaker 1: it again. I am nervous, but I am excited, and

949
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: I think the Rams are gonna do it. Oh I'm

950
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: not going to touch it because I don't even want

951
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 1: to be bet against us. You just did. I'm not

952
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:52,399
Speaker 1: locking up the Pats you bet against. I don't want

953
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,400
Speaker 1: to jinx us. I just am nervous, and I just

954
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 1: want to shame you. Shame on you don't do you

955
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,160
Speaker 1: know who who's under pressure in this game? Who? Billy

956
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 1: Boy Belichick? Why is that the old man? He's got

957
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 1: a couple of games, You've got a couple of game

958
00:47:05,920 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: plans in the Hall of Fame taking out Marshall Falk

959
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: and Thurman Thomas. Can he do the same thing with

960
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, who has bedeviled the Patriots the last two matchup.

961
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,440
Speaker 1: He really hasn't had the answer for the Chiefs. No,

962
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 1: he hasn't, not not defensively, I mean he's overmatched. It

963
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 1: almost gives me a little consolation that the Chiefs are

964
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:27,040
Speaker 1: just a more talented team that it's gonna take. It's

965
00:47:27,040 --> 00:47:30,200
Speaker 1: gonna take a lot from Belichick to overcome that. I mean,

966
00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,439
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's recovered yet from blowing last

967
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:35,520
Speaker 1: year Super Bowl. M I don't want to lock off

968
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: with you, Mark, and I know where you want to come.

969
00:47:37,120 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 1: You want to join me. This is where the true

970
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:41,560
Speaker 1: glory is, the underdog glory. Keep an eye on Twitter.

971
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: I mean, I could, I could get into a certain

972
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 1: state of mind and switch. I will not. I think

973
00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:50,680
Speaker 1: I will say this out of a deadline, out of sportsmanship.

974
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: So this, no matter what, we'll go to the end

975
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 1: of barring a total meltdown, I will not switch to

976
00:47:55,120 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: the Saints. That is not doesn't do it that way,

977
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 1: because that that that does not help the game anymore

978
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: less that hurts. I'm not I'm not gonna lock in

979
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: the scenes, but I'm saying he shouldn't not lock them

980
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: just to keep the game alive. No, he's saying he's

981
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:09,799
Speaker 1: not gonna do like a last minute change. He's gonna

982
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:11,359
Speaker 1: go with the team he's picking as long as it's

983
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: from the heart, right, That's what the game's about it's

984
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 1: always been about the mirror. Well, I mean, there's another

985
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: week to this, no matter what probably likely next. That's right,

986
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,440
Speaker 1: But then that will happen outside of any sort of bizarreness.

987
00:48:24,560 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: We should just have a preview show about the whole lot.

988
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I can imagine the greatest coaches ever,

989
00:48:30,719 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: like the m v P against like the greatest player

990
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,440
Speaker 1: of all time. Nonsense, let's talk about that. There's no

991
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 1: doubt there is a massive chunk of anyone listening to

992
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:40,520
Speaker 1: this that could care less about this contest, and it's

993
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: getting probably eighteen minutes too much content around it. Um,

994
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 1: all right, that's it. Are we gonna pick these games?

995
00:48:47,520 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 1: I believe I made my pick? Did did you pick?

996
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: I know you're carrying the water with me. Come on,

997
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:53,000
Speaker 1: we're going up and down that hill together. I really

998
00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: want to see Brady in another super Bowl because of

999
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: his excellence. I don't really want to see Belichick in

1000
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: another super Bowl after this stunt he pulled last year. Um, Butler,

1001
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: give me a break, give me the Super Bowl to

1002
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 1: make a point. Oh my god, he just blew the

1003
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:18,840
Speaker 1: game was like Eric getting destroyed in coverage. Give me

1004
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:22,160
Speaker 1: a break, Bella Chick. I would love to see Brady

1005
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:25,280
Speaker 1: in there, but I think the Chiefs are too talented

1006
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 1: and and they have a huge home field advantage, and

1007
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: the Patriots just aren't a good road team this year.

1008
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 1: So I'm picking the more talented team in my eyes,

1009
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: the Chiefs to the course against US thirty dollars sell

1010
00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: those teachers. I don't feel well enough to bet to

1011
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: bet on it, even if I was allowed. You're not.

1012
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:46,359
Speaker 1: And I really do want to see Brady in another

1013
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,919
Speaker 1: super just because I admire and respect him that much.

1014
00:49:50,520 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: All right, enjoy it? You know. For Patriots fans out there,

1015
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: you know, turned down your piece scale. This is great stuff.

1016
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:01,360
Speaker 1: Having a it's to go to Kansas City to be

1017
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 1: part of these games. You can't. You can't. But because

1018
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,920
Speaker 1: the chunks of Patriots fans totally disagree with your mental

1019
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: wrapping around the Patriots experience, they're gonna live or die

1020
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: with what I I'm gonna be very disappointed. My point

1021
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:17,399
Speaker 1: is the excitement building up to this game, thinking about

1022
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,680
Speaker 1: the matchup of just like it's not gonna last forever,

1023
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 1: it's ending soon. The fact that they're even back in

1024
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:27,560
Speaker 1: this game for years. It's true, I mean matter is

1025
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:30,960
Speaker 1: that you are as a Patriots fan, and I know

1026
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 1: Bostonians don't, but it's like like being a Yankee fan.

1027
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:38,080
Speaker 1: What happens is when a dynasty rolls on, the winning

1028
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 1: doesn't feel as good as losing hurts. It's an old

1029
00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 1: parcels is um. That's why he got out of the game.

1030
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 1: He got to the point where the losing stuck with

1031
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,880
Speaker 1: him longer than the winds did. When you're in a

1032
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,840
Speaker 1: dynasty that you're just like it. No longer do you

1033
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:52,400
Speaker 1: get that same thrill when you win, but the losses

1034
00:50:52,640 --> 00:50:55,279
Speaker 1: kill you. So it doesn't matter where I feel like

1035
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: your head is at. It's gonna be a stinging pain

1036
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:01,040
Speaker 1: if you go down. But were the super Bowl because

1037
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: that's just the way. But honestly, being on the road

1038
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:06,680
Speaker 1: against the best team in the league, and this team

1039
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 1: specifically makes it feel different because there's like no shame

1040
00:51:10,120 --> 00:51:11,879
Speaker 1: in that. And that then what they did last week

1041
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:15,800
Speaker 1: was was pretty exciting and nobody believes in and I do.

1042
00:51:16,200 --> 00:51:18,279
Speaker 1: I do mean it though, Like they the first time

1043
00:51:18,320 --> 00:51:20,680
Speaker 1: they wrote off the page like is the Patriots dynasty

1044
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: over was oh nine. Since then, they've been to more

1045
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:27,839
Speaker 1: conference championships than twenty four franchises have combined and having

1046
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: their entire history, like in the second half of Brady's career.

1047
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: So if you can't like enjoy, like, hey, this is

1048
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: a big game, Like this is what being a fans about.

1049
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: Give me a break. You're approaching forty. Go tell a

1050
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,120
Speaker 1: fifteen year old Patriots fan and just has grown up

1051
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: in this and thinks this is how life is. Suddenly

1052
00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:46,360
Speaker 1: would be like it would be a psychic break to

1053
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: suddenly not be the greatest thing in football. Psychic break. Well, no,

1054
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:53,640
Speaker 1: they definitely do. And they're not gonna sit here and

1055
00:51:53,680 --> 00:51:55,240
Speaker 1: be like, oh, I have the I have the perspective

1056
00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,920
Speaker 1: to where potential nice to go play, go play a

1057
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 1: nice game outdoors. It's potential for of the you know,

1058
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 1: signature Brady wins. Of course, who are you picking? Greg?

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Speaker 1: You know, for the how many weeks have we done

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Speaker 1: this podcast? But for that many straight weeks, I'm picking

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Speaker 1: the Patriots. Didn't you want not pick the pad against us?

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Speaker 1: I've never I've never picked against them on this podcast. Ricky,

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Speaker 1: you're sure you don't want to get on I I

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Speaker 1: don't want to put a bet of a lock or anything,

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Speaker 1: but the paths are gonna take it. I think Ricky

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Speaker 1: refusing to lock up the patches one of the reasons

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Speaker 1: I feel better about the cosmic bad sign. Will talk

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Speaker 1: about that Sunday Night, because Dan believes it's not. It's

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Speaker 1: not have called off that bit if he believed any

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Speaker 1: of that. He is so excited about this team going

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00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:45,359
Speaker 1: down on everybody thinks we suck bet against us. Dan

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Speaker 1: believes alright, he's an acolyte. Next time you hear from us,

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Speaker 1: will know the results of these games. And how exciting

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Speaker 1: is that. Ricky's so noivous. Ricky Hollywood is going to

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Speaker 1: be in the Garage throwback podcast appearance. We won't say

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Speaker 1: what we're taping. We want to keep that a secret,

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Speaker 1: but one of your favorite artists of all time. Gotta

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Speaker 1: ja the goat. You said the goat. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: the goat in the garage. I'll be fun, all right. Chumbawamba.

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Speaker 1: Do you know who Chumba Womba is? No? Okay, this

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Speaker 1: is Dan hands A signing off for Quiet Store, the

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Speaker 1: mail Man, the Old Zeus Sir, the old Boss. Oh,

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Speaker 1: and Rickie holl is behind the glass. Tell us Sunday Night,